If you're preparing to reformat, sell or recycle any of your business's computers, make a point of unpartitioning the devices' hard drives. While this may seem like a task best delegated to one of your more tech-savvy employees, unparititioning a computer's hard drive is a task that can be successfully undertaken by even people who are technologically challenged. So if you're ready to completely wipe the hard drives of any of your company's computers, don't hesitate to unpartition them.

1. Click on the Windows "Start" button, type "compmgmt.msc" in the Search field and press "Enter" to open the Computer Management utility.

2. Click on "Disk Management" is the pane on the left to see a list of your computer's hard drives.

3. Browse the list. Right-click on the drive you wish to unpartition.

4. Select "Delete Partition" from the drop-down menu. A confirmation box will appear, informing you that all data on the drive will be lost if you proceed.

5. Click the "OK" button to confirm that you wish to unpartition the drive. The amount of time the process will take is contingent upon the size of the drive and the amount of data being purged.

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Cameron Sherber has been writing professionally since 2010, and his comic strips appear regularly in "The High Plains Reader" and "The Huffington Post." He graduated from Carthage College with a B.A. in East Asian studies and Japanese language in 2006.